A drunk Ethiopian police officer has shot dead two of his colleagues in the capital, Addis Ababa, state-linked Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports quoting police commissioner Zeynu Jemal.
A row of dirty vans is parked on a broad, tree-lined avenue in the outskirts of Paris. In the dark of night, fluttering candles light up the faces of the women in the front seats. None of them wear more than their underwear.Â
The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday's earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,200, the country's disaster response agency says.
Nigeria is committed to ending attacks by militant Islamists in the north-east of the country and making the region “safe for allâ€, President Muhammadu Buhari has said in his speech marking the 58th anniversary of independence from British rule.
A 48-hour curfew was imposed on Sunday in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon ahead of Monday's first anniversary of a symbolic declaration of independence by Anglophone separatists.
As rescue workers comb through chunks of concrete and lumber searching for survivors, Indonesian officials say that 832 people were killed in a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.
Zambia has deported Kenyan lawyer and renowned pan-Africanist Prof Patrick L.O Lumumba because he has spoken against China's pernicious dealings in Zambia.
A court in Liberia has banned 23 more people from travelling abroad following the disappearance of more than $100m (£76m) worth of freshly printed banknotes.
All of them are employees of the Central Bank.
The authorities are investigating what happened to two shipping containers full of $16bn Liberian dollars in new banknotes which were brought into the country last year.
They were printed abroad and destined for the Central Bank.
Last week, 15 others were banned from overseas travel, including a son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
